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Brussels to push for greater ETF trade transparency
July 8, 2021--Brussels will submit proposals to increase transparency and reduce the cost of market data with the aim of increasing the competitiveness of the EU exchange-traded fund industry.
Tillman Luder, head of the European Commission's securities markets division, said Brussels is currently discussing the development of integrated tapes with data providers.
UK and Brussels clash over 40bn pound Brexit divorce bill-FT
June 8, 2021--In a latest Brexit update, published early Friday morning in Asia, the Financial Times (FT) said, "Brussels and London were on Thursday locked in a dispute over the size of the UK's Brexit bill, after the EU suggested that Britain would be obliged to pay€47.5bn (£40.8bn) as part of its post-Brexit arrangements."
"But the UK Treasury insisted that the Brexit divorce settlement remained within its previous central range of £35bn-£39bn. An updated estimate is to be published next week," added FT.
The risks from climate change to sovereign debt in Europe
July 8, 2021--European Union institutions and national fiscal authorities should incorporate climate risk in debt sustainability analysis.
The exposure of European Union sovereigns to climate risks can be acute, from extreme weather, or chronic, from the productivity effects of gradual temperature increase, increased sea levels and the transition to a low-carbon economy that results in repricing of assets.
Climate-related innovations can also spur growth. These risks are priced by investors and can affect sovereign credit ratings.
Governments and fiscal stability authorities have an interest in the sovereign-debt implications of climate change being transparent.
ECB Unveils Policy Regime Change That Lets Inflation Overshoot
July 8, 2021--The European Central Bank raised its goal for inflation and may let it overshoot the target for a while, giving officials more discretion in how to bolster the economy after years of lackluster performance.
In the culmination of an 18-month review published Thursday, policy makers agreed to seek consumer-price growth of 2% over the medium-term with a "symmetric" aim.
The ECB said that when interest rates are close to their lower limit, as now, the economy will need "especially forceful" monetary stimulus that could "imply a transitory period in which inflation is moderately above target."
How have the European Central Bank's negative rates been passed on?
July 7, 2021--Negative rate cuts are not that different from 'standard' rate cuts. Like them, they reduce banks' margins, but this effect does not appear to be amplified below 0%.
Since the global financial crisis, several central banks have deployed negative policy rates, after exhausting conventional easing measures.
The European Central Bank introduced its negative interest rate policy (NIRP) in June 2014 when it cut its deposit facility rate below 0% for the first time, to -0.1%. Since then, the rate has been cut four more times, by 10 basis points each time, to reach -0.5% in September 2019. After seven years of NIRP and with markets currently expecting rates to stay negative for the next five years, it is crucial to fully understand the effects of prolonged negative rates on the economy.
A new investment trust to profit from the space race
July 6, 2021--There is now an investment trust focusing on the space sector. It looks intriguing, says David Stevenson-but highly risky.
I recently highlighted the launch of a new exchange-traded fund (ETF) in the space sector: the Procure Space UCITS ETF (LSE: YODA).
Now comes news of another new fund in the same area, an actively managed investment trust called the Seraphim Space Investment Trust (LSE: SSIT). It is set for an initial public offering (IPO) worth £180m. The closing date for applications is Friday 9 July, with dealing commencing on Wednesday 14 July. The fund is targeting a net-asset-value (NAV) total return of at least 20% a year.
New law opens gates for institutional crypto investment in Germany
July 5, 2021--The German Bundesrat has approved a new piece of legislation -The Fund Location Act-which aims to regulate emerging asset classes for Germany's finance industry, including crypto assets such as Bitcoin (BTC).
The new law was first proposed and approved in the Bundestag (the lower house in Germany's parliament system) back in April, and with the recent approval in the Bundesrat the bill passed into law yesterday.
The specifics of the bill grant spezialfonds (special wealth management funds) the legal ability to allocate as much as 20% of their portfolio into crypto assets.
Euro area quarterly balance of payments and international investment position:
first quarter of 2021
July 5, 2021--Current account surplus at €285 billion (2.5% of euro area GDP) in four quarters to first quarter of 2021, up from €247 billion (2.1% of GDP) a year earlier
Geographic counterparts: largest bilateral current account surpluses vis-a-vis United Kingdom (€157 billion) and United States (€68 billion), largest deficit vis-a-vis China (€78 billion).
International investment position showed net liabilities of €118 billion (1.0% of euro area GDP) at end of first quarter of 2021
Current account
The current account surplus of the euro area increased to €285 billion (2.5% of euro area GDP) in the four quarters to the first quarter of 2021, up from €247 billion (2.1% of GDP) a year earlier (see Table 1). This increase reflected larger surpluses for services (from €26 billion to €66 billion) and for goods (from €327 billion to €357 billion). These developments were partly offset by a decrease in the surplus for primary income (from €41 billion to €34 billion), and a larger deficit for secondary income, which increased from €147 billion to €172 billion.
ECB to crack down on dangerous risks in banks' leveraged lending
July 2, 2021--European Central Bank supervisors warn that banks are overly content with the undue risk they are accumulating in the leveraged and equity derivatives markets, resulting in higher capital requirements.
Andrea Enria said on Friday that she was concerned about banks' "market complacency and excessive risk-taking" : "increased leverage, financial complexity and opacity warning signs are a dangerous combination of risk factors. It creates the possibility of. "
ECB officials said the speech showed that supervisors had lost patience with some larger eurozone lenders, such as Deutsche Bank. That call To curb more risky lending.
ESMA publishes first overview of national rules governing fund marketing
July 1, 2021--The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA), the EU securities markets regulator, has submitted to the European Parliament, the Council and the European Commission its first report on national rules governing the marketing of investment funds under the Regulation on cross-border distribution of funds.
In this report, ESMA provides an overview of the marketing requirements across Member States, and analyses the effects of national laws, regulations and administrative provisions governing the marketing of investment funds. The report is based on responses provided by National Competent Authorities (NCAs) to two questionnaires prepared by ESMA.
Key findings:
National laws, regulations and administrative provisions governing marketing requirements are usually based on the transposition of the AIFMD and the UCITS Directive, although NCAs’ responses showed that some additional national requirements may be applicable.
